Luis Argudín

[1][2] At age eighteen, he painted his first self-portrait, which was exhibited at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

[1] Argudín has received a grant from FONCA in 1992 and a Fulbright-Garcia Robles in 1993, to be the visiting artist at the University of Rochester.

[1][6][7] There, he codirects the La Colmena experimental art workshop at UNAM along with Jose Miguel Gonzalez Casanova, Francisco Castro Leñero and Eloy Tarcisio.

He also taught experimental painting at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos from 2005 to 2007.

[1] His career has also include publications such as Diluvio (2006), published by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Xochimilco), La espiral y el tiempo.

[3] Today his work is classical and orthodox, with pictorial strategies foremost, unlike most of his contemporaries, with particular focus on two-dimensional images on traditional media.

[5][8] He uses the academic elements of the old traditional schools of realism, similar to that of Neoclassical and Baroque images.

[5][9] His work is a portrait of nature in all its expressions: death, humanity, beauty, mystery and the animal kingdom.

The artist speaking at an event
Woman looking a series of skull paintings by the artist at an exhibition at the Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público